
Beloved of the Gods: Ashoka Maurya in His Time and Ours
Echoes Of India: A History Podcast
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'Ashoka's Damma Officers Get to Knew of It
The emperor shoka was so convinced moral righteousness that he also made demands like this. In various inscriptions, he mentions the jans or digantas as well as buddhists. He could surrounded himself with ambitious leaders of a single buddhist sect and demanded that the rest of the sangaa fall in line with that. If you compare it to theocratic regime such as the taliba and afghanistan,you'd see why the moria state is not something that we should be aspiring to learn from.
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